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This is an explicit Project 2025 goal.



It's surprising to see how many people still don't get this. None of what happened so far was in any way surprising. You can literally go right now and read up what else they have planned. We're in for a wild ride.


They get it, they just know it looks bad so they act as if they are surprised.


There are still some people (even in this thread) pretending it is not deliberately sabotaging the government in favor of billionaires.


I distinctly 'member people even right here on this site taking dumps on anyone who dared accuse the Republicans of being hellbent on implementing Project 2025. Called us "conspiracy nuts", said that this was just "enemy propaganda" or that there was no connection between Trump and Project 2025, downvoted and flagged our warnings... where the fuck are y'all now? Where the fuck are y'all with your guns and "don't tread on me" flags now that MAGA is tearing down the government and installing an autocracy in all but name? And where the fuck are the even more people who did just the same on Reddit?

The thing is, almost no one was used to politicians actually following through with their plans and promises. Trump is the first Western leader since I'm alive (other than the current Spanish government) to actually do what he has promised, and I fear this image of him being an "accomplisher" will send him for a wave of support in both the midterms and the next election (and yes, I also believe that there will be no one left to enforce the "two terms" regulation).


> Where the fuck are y'all with your guns and "don't tread on me" flags now that MAGA is tearing down the government and installing an autocracy in all but name?

The same place they were when Breonna Taylor was summarily executed by government agents retaliating for Kenneth Walker exercising his second amendment right to home defense at night (the exact type of scenario they continually grandstand about!) - following the twisted logic and misdirection of their mainstream media so they can continue lazily attacking a strawman of their fellow citizens ("oWn tHe lIbS!1!") rather than reflect on what it would actually take to live their purported values.

At this point the only real question for so-called "conservatives" is when will they realize their leaders have betrayed us and given away our country's future to China?


Democrats don't believe in guns or storming the white house... they'll either wait 4 years or wishfully dream that orange man dies of a heart attack.


> I also believe that there will be no one left to enforce the "two terms" regulation).

I don't want to suggest what Trump himself suggested: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-2nd-amendment-folks-st...

I think that's a bad option.

What I am saying is: Every single time I've seen a headline about school shootings, someone suggests gun control.

Someone reacts that guns keep the government from becoming despots.

I said then, no, the military are the ones who decide such things. Militia don't make a dent, despite their self image.

And yet, Trump, who just narrowly avoided being killed, signed more support of the 2nd amendment.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20250207/nra-statement-on-pr...

Did he sign because he's afraid, or because he's not?


Reminds me of how 9/11 turned into the GWoT and Iraq I etc. The Project for the New American Century posted their playbook for that on their website too. Most people downplayed it.




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